{"id":19278,"date":"2016-03-03T00:27:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T23:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19278"},"modified":"2016-03-03T00:27:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T23:27:30","slug":"things-i-learned-on-my-latest-visit-to-the-british-museum-2-the-origin-of-the-term-phoenicia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19278","title":{"rendered":"Things I learned on my latest visit to the British Museum (2): the origin of the term Phoenicia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I visited the British Museum with a family of Czech friends. Of course, I&#8217;ve been to the museum on many occasions but, on each such visit, I always learn something new.<\/p>\n<p>By the beginning of the first millennium BC, the territory on the north coast of modern Lebanon and Syria was known as Phoenicia. The name derives from the Greek word for &#8216;purple&#8217;, referring to one of the principle industries of the region, the extraction of dye from murex shells and the production of purple-coloured fabrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I visited the British Museum with a family of Czech friends. Of course, I&#8217;ve been to the museum on many occasions but, on each such visit, I always learn something new. By the beginning of the first millennium BC, the territory on the north coast of modern Lebanon and Syria was known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19288,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions\/19288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}